At the 2023 National Swimming Championships and Doha World Championships Trials, the much-watched women's 100-meter freestyle final was held on the evening of December 14, with Chinese swimming stars Zhang Yufei and Yang Junxuan having direct dialogues, as well as rising stars such as Cheng Yujie and Yu Yiting in the finals. After fierce competition, Zhang Yufei finally won the third place, the teenager Cheng Yujie won the championship, and Yang Junxuan won the runner-up.
Women's 100m freestyle final
冠军：程玉洁【53秒57】
Runner-up: Yang Junxuan [53.64 seconds]
季军：张雨霏【54秒01】
World Record: Söström, Sweden - 51.71 seconds [2017 World Championships in Budapest]
Asian Record: Hong Kong's Ho Sze Pui - 52.27 seconds [Tokyo 2020]
National Record: Zhang Yufei -52.90 seconds [2020 National Championships]
Competition venue: Jinan Olympic Sports Center Natatorium
Event Highlights: Zhang Yufei and Yang Junxuan competed in the women's 50m freestyle event, when Zhang Yufei narrowly beat Yang Junxuan to win the championship. After three days, the two sides met again in the women's 100m final, so swimming fans are looking forward to this competition. In addition, the two sides switched between teammates and opponents, and the two relay partners won the championship in both races.
Preliminaries recap
In the previous preliminaries, Jiangxi Hosa teenager Cheng Yujie played well, ranking first overall with a time of 54.59 seconds and successfully qualified for the finals. Shandong Zhouke's Yang Junxuan, Jiangsu Calmei's Zhang Yufei and Zhejiang Shouxian Valley's Yu Yiting were very close in the preliminaries, with Yang Junxuan 54.95 seconds, Zhang Yufei 54.96 seconds and Yu Yiting 54.97 seconds.
In addition, Hubei Hosa's Ai Yanhan, Jiangsu Calmei's Yang Wenwen, Chongqing Hosa's Luo Mingyu and Shaanxi Hosa's Liu Ruixue advanced to the finals.
Among these eight players, only the 25-year-old Zhang Yufei is a post-90s player, and the rest are post-00s players. Cheng Yujie and Yu Yiting are both currently 18 years old, relatively young, but there are younger, Shaanxi player Liu Ruixue is currently 17 years old, and Chongqing player Luo Mingyu was born in 2008. In addition, among the players who did not qualify, there was Li Chenge, a player from Henan who was born in 2011, and ranked 22nd in the preliminaries with a time of 56.83 seconds.
Final Recap
The race began, Zhang Yufei reacted quickly, led the way in the first 50 meters, and took the lead in completing the turn in 25.66 seconds, Chen Yujie followed with a gap of 0.13 seconds, and Yang Junxuan completed the turn in the third.
came to the last 50 meters of the sprint, Cheng Yujie played a strong role to overtake Zhang Yufei, and Yang Junxuan also quickly caught up and surpassed Zhang Yufei. In the end, Cheng Yujie won the championship in 53.57 seconds, Yang Junxuan won the second place in 53.64 seconds, and Zhang Yufei won the third place with a time of 54.01 seconds.
Zhang Yufei's record: Zhang Yufei is the active leader of the Chinese swimming team, and his performance in this event has attracted much attention, and he has achieved very good results in the past few days. He won 1 gold and 1 silver on the first day, 1 gold on the second day, 1 gold on the third day, and 1 gold and 1 silver on the fourth day. Therefore, Zhang Yufei won a total of 4 golds and 2 silvers in the first four days. On the fifth day of competition, Zhang Yufei only competed in the women's 100-meter freestyle event, and Zhang Yufei won the third place.
Yang Junxuan's record: Yang Junxuan's comprehensive results in the first few days were also very good, winning 1 gold on the first day, 1 silver on the 2nd day, 2 championships on the 3rd day, and 1 gold on the fourth day. Therefore, Yang Junxuan won 4 golds and 1 silver in the first 4 days. On the fifth day of competition, Yang Junxuan overtook Zhang Yufei in the women's 100-meter freestyle event, but she didn't expect the teenager Cheng Yujie to continue her strong performance in the preliminaries and win the championship by a narrow margin, and Yang Junxuan was the runner-up.